I'm always hearing that Firebug is the best for web dev. I prefer to use a webkit based browser, and I use Safari 4, or Webkit. I don't mind the web inspector. That's the background. I'm wondering what features does firebug have that Safari 4 does not? If it's compelling, sure i'll give it a shot, but i've been working with it today...
I would love to use the Web Inspector development tools that come with webkit on a mobile browser. Does anyone know if it is possible to enable web inspector on say the Android web browser ?? ...
Is there an easy way to examine the HTTP GET/POST/OPTIONS/HEAD etc requests being made by jquery ajax calls using WebKit's Web Inspector? I'm hand crafting responses and am looking for a simple way to monitor the back and forth traffic. ...
How can I pop up Webkit's Web Inspector from my WebView object programmatically? I succeed to enable Webkit's Web Inspector on my WebView. It's working well, and now I can pop it up by clicking "Inspect Element" on context menu. And I want to do this with my push button. But I couldn't find a proper way to do this. My DOM knowledge is 1...
I've recently been working on a print stylesheet for a website, and I realized that I was at a loss for effective ways to tweak it. It's one thing to have a reload cycle for working on the on-screen layout: change code command-tab reload but that whole process gets much more arduous when you're trying to print: change code command-...
While hunting a Javascript error related to form submission. I saw an error appear in the Web Inspector then disappear immediately since the form submits and refreshes the page. Is there a console history or scrollback? How can I see what the error is? ...
I have a checkout page http://www.oipolloi.com/oipolloi/shop/viewbasket.php with multiple ajax calls after certain items update (EG look up postage cost when country is changed, then update discount boxes etc). I've asked for help in the past about the best method of making sure ALL calls have returned before allowing the form to be subm...
If I write a native Android application that uses android.webkit.WebView, how do I enable WebKitDeveloperExtras for it? I would like to be able to enable real script debugging via Web Inspector, not just dumping to a console. ...
I have questioned and got solution how to break on exception in Web Inspector: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3315675/how-can-i-get-break-on-runtime-exceptionor-error-in-javascript-or-ecmascript Thanks klaaspieter. But I faced another problem. Web Inspector broke on exception, but does not print exception message until I continue ex...
When I'm working with CSS, I'll often test in a browser - say, Chrome - right click an element, click Inspect Element, and edit the CSS right there. The use of arrow keys to change things like margin and padding makes lining things up super easy. It's not too hard to then take those changes and apply them to the CSS file, but it would b...
I know how to detect Firebug in FF (if (window.console && window.console.firebug) alert ('Buu'); ) but how detect or disable Web Inspector in WebKit?? ...
Silly web element inspector (safari / chrome) question, but I can't seem to figure out why some properties are dimmed. ...
The Safari & Chrome developer tools (webkit inspector) seem to have become quite advanced. Although I'm very used to Firebug and rely on it for development, I'm really flirting with the idea of trying to just make a complete switch to Chrome (since I browse almost exclusively with it anyway) and just learn to get use to it's web develope...